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Thermodynamics of Evolution and the Origin of Life
Vitaly Vanchurin, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin +1
We outline a phenomenological theory of evolution and origin of life by combining the formalism of classical thermodynamics with a statistical description of learning. The maximum…
Towards a Theory of Evolution as Multilevel Learning
Vitaly Vanchurin, Yuri I. Wolf, Mikhail I. Katsnelson +1
We apply the theory of learning to physically renormalizable systems in an attempt to develop a theory of biological evolution, including the origin of life, as multilevel learning…
Punctuated equilibrium as the default mode of evolution of large populations on fitness landscapes dominated by saddle points in the weak-mutation limit
Yuri Bakhtin, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf +1
Punctuated equilibrium is a mode of evolution in which phenetic change occurs in rapid bursts that are separated by much longer intervals of stasis during which mutations accumulat…
On the feasibility of saltational evolution
Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin
Is evolution always gradual or can it make leaps? We examine a mathematical model of an evolutionary process on a fitness landscape and obtain analytic solutions for the probabilit…
Physical foundations of biological complexity
Yuri I. Wolf, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Eugene V. Koonin
Biological systems reach hierarchical complexity that has no counterpart outside the realm of biology. Undoubtedly, biological entities obey the fundamental physical laws. Can toda…
Towards physical principles of biological evolution
Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin
Biological systems reach organizational complexity that far exceeds the complexity of any known inanimate objects. Biological entities undoubtedly obey the laws of quantum physics…